It’s Getting Hot In Here

In a little under two weeks, Middlebury College will be hosting the first “Getting to 350″ Conference on campus in Middlebury, VT. Featuring a keynote address from Dr. James Hansen of NASA (interactive via video feed – yay cutting carbon emissions!), the conference will focus on the strategies we must employ to actually achive that great number in the sky that we’ve all been talking about: 350 parts per million. This conference will be a great opportunity for youth leaders to discuss their ideas with climate movement vets and some of the most brilliant scholars working on these issues today. These conversations will feature leaders like From Crisis to Opportunity’s (and former Greenpeace exec. director) John Passacantando, the Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mosset, and youth leaders like EAC’s Jessy Tolkan and Breakthrough’s Jesse Jenkings (both IGHIH contributers) among many, many others,  Don’t miss your chance to help transform our future, go to our website today to register for free!

The purpose of this conference is to map out our future. We will see climate legislation some time in the next couple years and chances are that a strong international climate treaty won’t be far behind. What then? How can the climate movement continue to help our world get to 350ppm? Discussions at the Getting to 350 conference will address themes like “Building Solutions in an Open-Source Century,” “Building Systems for the Future” (featuring genius professors from MIT), and “Breakthrough Ideas that have Worked.” Small breakout groups will have the opportunity to create visions for the future alongside award-winning advocates, professors, policy wonks, and all-around big thinkers. It’s like a PowerShift for the Future…only free. Please visit http://blogs.middlebury.edu/350workshop/about/ to learn more and to sign up. The more the merrier!